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Good morning fellows. Today I had hoped to be duck hunting on Lake Huron however yesterday the charter captain endured very high winds that came up out of nowhere and ended up losing all of his decoys and two lay out boats in the storm. We were driving across northern Michigan and just reached Saint Ignace when he message and said to turn around. It was a very long day of driving because we drove from 8 AM until 11:30 PM. Just resting at home now.
 
Good morning fellows. Today I had hoped to be duck hunting on Lake Huron however yesterday the charter captain endured very high winds that came up out of nowhere and ended up losing all of his decoys and two lay out boats in the storm. We were driving across northern Michigan and just reached Saint Ignace when he message and said to turn around. It was a very long day of driving because we drove from 8 AM until 11:30 PM. Just resting at home now.
Driving across the UP is no joke, it can put you to sleep or have your knuckles white, not much in between.
Bummer it didn't work out for you. The wind was pretty bad out this way, started kicking up a bit here this evening too.
Better safe than sorry.
 
Driving across the UP is no joke, it can put you to sleep or have your knuckles white, not much in between.
Bummer it didn't work out for you. The wind was pretty bad out this way, started kicking up a bit here this evening too.
Better safe than sorry.
Yes, Lake Superior was insane yesterday as we drove across the UP.
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Wouldn’t want to know what happens to a hunter in those layout boats when **** gets bad.
 
No scrounging this weekend. We had my brother's kids here yesterday. Six kids under 11 makes for a fun but tiring day! Today was the kid's Christmas program at church. I was able to pull out 6 big russian olives and bush honeysuckle clumps in about 30 minutes this afternoon. I'm planning on planting a row of spruce/pines/native shrubs where these shrubs are. There's only about 100 more to take care of before I can do that. :surprised3:
 
Good morning fellows. Today I had hoped to be duck hunting on Lake Huron however yesterday the charter captain endured very high winds that came up out of nowhere and ended up losing all of his decoys and two lay out boats in the storm. We were driving across northern Michigan and just reached Saint Ignace when he message and said to turn around. It was a very long day of driving because we drove from 8 AM until 11:30 PM. Just resting at home now.
I bet you missed a good time. I cross the bridge 3-4 times a week and there's been some huge rafts of birds the last couple weeks. They're not always close enough to identify, but the last ones close enough to make out were redheads.
 
Sucks your plans got cancelled Steve, but better safe than sorry.

Winds were real high here last night also. Thought we were going to lose power, but we got lucky and did not.

Had to take a pistol course today (in NY) to get a CT carry permit, even though I have a full carry in NY!

The nearest Cabelas in NY is about 5 hours away, the one in CT only one hour, but they will not sell a New Yorker guns or ammo in CT unless you have a CT carry permit!!! The NY full carry permit is not good enough!!! This stuff is getting so stupid!
 
I always appreciate a cool night after I hang a deer.
Enjoy the venison! The venison is always better if it can hang for two or three days at 35-40°. Usually it freezes or is too warm around here during gun season. Never seems to be just right. I would like to build a refrigerated room in my detached garage so I could always have the right temp. That'd be a hard sell to my wife though!
 
Enjoy the venison! The venison is always better if it can hang for two or three days at 35-40°. Usually it freezes or is too warm around here during gun season. Never seems to be just right. I would like to build a refrigerated room in my detached garage so I could always have the right temp. That'd be a hard sell to my wife though!
Just put up 4 walls and buy a controller for a window ac unit, you can make it cool down below freezing. That's what a buddy has at his place, been running it that way for yrs.
We had freshly butchered steer roast tonight that my wife did in the crockpot, it was delicious :sweet: .
 
Muzzleloader.

We don’t have a muzzleloader season in our zone (only ten zones do), they have to be used during rifle season. Otherwise I might have got it. We only have archery and general. Ours are earlier than any other state I’m aware of too.
 
NY used to just have archery and regular season, but they have added Cross Bow (open most of the early archery season) and Muzzle Loader (which is after regular season).

They also have different seasons for Northern Zone (Adirondack Mtns) and the rest of the State, and most Counties now allow rifle during the regular season (a big change), but some still only allow shotgun and some only bow (no cross bow).

The normal MZ season (in the Southern Zone) is for 9 days after regular season closes, but this year they have added an additional 7 days (the last week of Dec).

There is a lot less hunting pressure during the MZ season, and the inline Muzzle Loaders are very effective deer harvesters.

Not only does it give us die hards additional time to hunt, but you get two additional tags ... one is for antlerless only and the other can be used for a buck or doe.
 
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